Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
TERTULLIANIf the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Fear is the foundation of safety.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Christians are made, not born.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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